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5 Stages College Students Go Through When You Leave Home

Cause you know you miss it.

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5 Stages College Students Go Through When You Leave Home
Fiona McGrath Nagle

We cannot deny it. Students miss home when we leave for college. Maybe not completely or at first, but eventually at some point we all miss our home. It is where we have the most memories. All our childhood friends are there, are favorite restaurants and places to hang out with friends. Our whole life was spent there. Home will always be home to us.

Stage 1: Not Wanting To Leave

You honestly do not want to leave. You do not want to leave your parents. If you have younger siblings you do not want to leave them even if they annoy you, because you will miss them annoying you. You do not want to leave behind your group of very close friends. Most of all you do not want to leave your bestest of friend that is basically your sibling. You cannot forget your pets (if you have them). Point, blank, period, you do not want to leave.

Stage 2: Denial About Leaving

You are getting within weeks of when you are moving into your Residence Hall, but you keep telling yourself that there is no way this happening. How have you gotten this old? Since when did you graduate from high school and get accepted into a college? How is this even happening? You are definitely not ready to "adult".

Stage 3: Being Okay With It

Okay, so now you have moved into your Residence Hall and you realize there is no going back now. You just go with the flow. You know that there is nothing you can do about it now, since you have moved in. You look around your tiny room which you are probably sharing with someone who you do not know well (yet) and tell yourself that is going to be okay. Somehow you will survive being away from home.

Stage 4: Emotional To The Max.

You are looking through pictures and old texts which was definitely a bad decision. You should not have done that, because now you are a basket case. Not to mention that your roommate has walked in on you bawling your eyes out and you cannot even put yourself together to explain them why you are crying. You just wish that you were at home be held by your mom. Or getting a much needed best friend hug.

Stage 5: Acceptance of Leaving

This stage does not happen till the end of the school year when you are about to move out. You have realized that being away from home and everything that you have always known really is not that bad. Hey, look at you, you survived a whole school year away from home. Okay, so yeah you went home every so often, but who doesn't do that? But know that you are going home for the summer this whole cycle just starts up again for the next school year.

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